Notice2024-13244
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
June 17, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the PMAE has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51364-51365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13244]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038099; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the PMAE has completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 17, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138,
telephone (617) 496-3702, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e696858796898883a6808795c88e879490879482c8838293"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6c1c0f0d1c0302092c0a0d1f42040d1e1a0d1e0842090819">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
PMAE, and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The one lot of
associated funerary objects is one lot of faunal remains. In 1906, Mark
Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden removed these human remains and
associated funerary objects from the St. Lawrence site in Jefferson
County, NY, as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition.
Based on the information available, one lot of associated funerary
objects has been identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects
is one lot of faunal remains. These associated funerary objects were
removed from the Perch River Bay site in Jefferson County, NY, by Mark
Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum
Expedition. The human remains associated with these associated funerary
objects were listed in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in
the Federal Register on October 5, 2001 (66 FR 51062-51064) and a
correction Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal
Register on March 14, 2003 (68 FR 12376-12377).
Based on the information available, one lot of associated funerary
objects has been identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects
is one lot of ceramic vessels and sherds, ceramic pipe fragments,
ceramic effigy pipe fragments, ceramic discs, bone tools, faunal
remains, botanical remains, shell beads, stone beads, lithics, flakes,
charcoal, charred wood, ground stone tools, net sinkers, worked stones,
unworked stones, shell, worked faunal
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remains, brass buttons, an iron spring, iron nails, glass, and soil.
These associated funerary objects were removed from the Durfee Farm
site in Jefferson County, NY, by Mark Raymond Harrington and Irwin
Hayden in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition. The human
remains associated with these associated funerary objects were listed
in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register
on October 5, 2001 (66 FR 51062-51064) and a correction Notice of
Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on March 14,
2003 (68 FR 12376-12377).
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The PMAE has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The three lots of objects described in this notice are
reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the
death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Oneida
Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; and the Onondaga Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 17, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the PMAE must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The PMAE is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 7, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-13244 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
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